Salter Springs Fruit Trees (Popular)
Salter Springs Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Walnut - Placentia
$79.00 ($29.75-$99.00 choose a size)
Medium sized nut with a smooth, thin shell. Tree is heavy bearing with good quality nuts. This grafted variety has a lower chill than most walnut varieties and has cropped well in the Subtropics.
Quince - Champion
$39.00 ($39.00-$49.00 choose a size)
Large, golden yellow, pear shaped fruit with a mild flavour. Excellent when preserved. The flesh becomes a beautiful dark red when cooked and the conserve, quince jelly, is one of the best. A very hardy small tree that thrives and bears well.
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Almond - Self Pollinating Papershell
$49.00
Excellent, self-pollinating almond that bears heavy crops of soft-shelled almonds with a good, sweet flavour. The kernels are broad, full and oval in shape, they are mid season. The tree has an upright form and is a self pollinating large Papershell. Almonds require a climate with dry Summer/Autumn and cool winters.
Walnut - Tulare
$21.00 ($21.00-$34.00 choose a size)
Seedling tree from Tulare Variety. Upright and moderately vigorous. Comes into production early, heavy producer of large well seals nuts. The crack-out is around 53%. It blooms late, an advantage in frosty areas, but is still matures its nuts mid season and is self fertile.
Pomegranate - Elche
$34.00 ($19.75-$99.00 choose a size)
One of the most highly valued pomegranates in the world, thanks to its extraordinary flavour and high antioxidant, vitamin and mineral content. Elche comes from the Spanish city of the same name. Elche Pomegranates have to be picked at just the right time: Not too early because, once picked, pomegranates halt the ripening process immediately, and also not too late because they are then at risk of bursting.
